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Dominik Schneider

Profundum

Designer turned perfumer, and the nose of Profundum, a young Polish house that keeps its perfumes like a diary of smoke, incense and memory.

The story

Dominik Schneider is a graphic and motion designer from Kraków who moved into perfumery and brand design. Profundum began with a spark in early 2023, the first version of Martyr, and was established a year later by Dominik and his co-founder Bartłomiej Cygan; since June 2024 he has been its CEO and perfumer.

The work

Profundum draws on the founders' own memories: adventures in the woods, bonfires, nights in the Polish countryside, summer incense in church. The aim is "narratives that reveal rather than conceal", a diary kept in bottles. The first two releases give shape to painful memories; the next ones are set in an imagined religious world of salvation and destruction, marked by a cross and a circle, with the perfumes "+" and "o", released in October 2026. Martyr is the calm after a fire: charred pine, black leather and polished woods.